The Naslund family has been spending the year in Chile, while Dick, a geologist, is on sabbatical leave from Binghamton University and Cheryl, a librarian, is on leave from UE High School. We arrived in August with four adolescent children in tow, and rented an apartment on the fifth floor of a new 19-story apartment building just east of downtown Santiago.Our younger girls (Neelam, Kalindi, and Cambria) are in a local Spanish language high school, while our son (Sterling) makes alfajores, a Chilean caramel-filled cookie dipped in chocolate at a sheltered workshop near our apartment.Our older daughter (Skye) arrived at Christmas after graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December.
January and February are the summer months in Chile, so we took advantage of the school vacation to take a camping trip up first to the desert in the north (more on that at a later date), and then to the Lake District in the south where we spent the last week of our vacation with friends in their post and beam summer home on Lago Ranco.
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